Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 299.—Royal chair ofstate, wall painting,Rameses III. 332 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. threads of the warp were firmly knotted, and thenrolled round the upper cylinder until the propertensipn was attained—cross sticks placed at intervalsfacilitated the insertion of the spindles filled withthread. The work was commenced at the bottom,as is done with the Gobelins tapestries. The tissuewas beaten down and equalised by means of a coarsecomb, and the finished work was wound-upon thelower
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 299.—Royal chair ofstate, wall painting,Rameses III. 332 THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. threads of the warp were firmly knotted, and thenrolled round the upper cylinder until the propertensipn was attained—cross sticks placed at intervalsfacilitated the insertion of the spindles filled withthread. The work was commenced at the bottom,as is done with the Gobelins tapestries. The tissuewas beaten down and equalised by means of a coarsecomb, and the finished work was wound-upon thelower cylinder as it progressed. In this way both. Fig. 300.—Women weaving, from wall scene in tomb ofKhnumhotep, Beni Hasan, Twelfth Dynasty. tapestry and carpets were produced, one decoratedwith figures, the other with geometrical designs andzigzags and chequers (fig. 301), but at the same timea careful examination of the painted scenes has con-vinced me that the greater number of instances thatha\-e been thought to represent tapestry are in realityintended for leather, cut and painted. The leatherindustry flourished. There are few museums thatdo not possess at least one pair of sandals, or of thosebraces provided for mummies with pink and yeIlo\y LEATHER WORK. 333 ends stamped with the figure of a god or of a Pharaoh,a hieroglyph text or a rosette, and sometimes witha combination of all four. These small objects arerarely of earlier date than the time of the high-priests of Amon or of the earlier Bubastites, and itis to this period that we must assign the cut leathercanopy of the Cairo Museum. The catafalque thatwas placed over t
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